At age three, Gesar Tsewang Arthur Mukpo, son of renowned Tibetan
Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his British wife Diana,
was identified as the reincarnation of the late Jamgon Kongtrul of
Sechen, one of his father’s own teachers in Tibet. Living in Boulder,
Colorado and then Halifax, Nova Scotia, Gesar balanced competing
cultures and strikingly different definitions of self. His life was far
from that of an ordinary contemporary American or Canadian—his father
was a world famous Buddhist teacher and author—but there was no
monastery upbringing like that of perhaps the best known tulku, the
Dalai Lama, or even like his father. And after his father’s untimely
death, he was on his own with this challenge…

Inspired by Tibetan Buddhist teacher and noted filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche (The Cup, Travellers & Magicians),
Gesar Mukpo has documented his own story and those of several other
tulkus in this personal and thoughtful film that asks the questions,
“What does it mean to be identified as a tulku? and more broadly, “How
does one live in this world, fulfill one’s destiny?”